The Minority in Parliament has pushed back strongly against attempts to link Ghana’s ongoing power outages solely to the recent fire at the Akosombo substation, insisting the crisis predates the incident and reflects deeper systemic failures.
At a press briefing on Tuesday, April 28, the Member of Parliament for Afigya Kwabre North, Collins Adomako-Mensah, criticised the government’s handling of the energy situation and dismissed claims that the disruptions are largely the result of the April 23 fire at the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo) facility.
According to him, the erratic power supply, widely referred to as “dumsor”, has been a persistent issue since early 2025 and cannot be reduced to a single event.
He acknowledged that the Akosombo incident may have aggravated the situation but argued it does not account for the prolonged outages experienced across the country.
“I must state plainly and without qualification: Ghana’s power crisis, the dumsor that millions of Ghanaians have been enduring since January 2025, was not caused by any incident at Akosombo. It was caused by this government. The events of 23 April are the latest and most dramatic symptom of a power sector left to decay under the NDC’s incompetent stewardship.
“The Mahama government must not be permitted to use this incident as a convenient alibi for a crisis that predates it by more than a year, and the NPP Minority will not allow that cynical rewriting of history to pass unchallenged,” he stated.
The comments add to mounting political tension over the country’s power challenges, as residents in several parts of Ghana continue to grapple with unannounced outages.
